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I thought we could start by saying a little about our TTC journey. I used Clomid for 2 rounds before I conceived. I also had to use progesterone supplements. I was ttc since April, MC in June. We have 2 Children a boy age 8 and a girl age 4. They both want a new sibling so bad, but I haven't told them we are expecting in fear of losing another baby. I am 3-4weeks and I can't wait to get past the first trimester and start telling EVERYONE. LOl Age 25EDD 8/15/13

I thought we could start by saying a little about our TTC journey. I used Clomid for 2 rounds before I conceived. I also had to use progesterone supplements. I was ttc since April, MC in June. We have 2 Children a boy age 8 and a girl age 4. They both want a new sibling so bad, but I haven't told them we are expecting in fear of losing another baby. I am 3-4weeks and I can't wait to get past the first trimester and start telling EVERYONE. LOl Age 25EDD 8/15/13

Hi there I have an 18 month old who was the result of our first iui. Our second iui in June 2012 resulted in an ectopic pregnancy so dr said IVF was our only option to give our little man a sibling. Got our bfp yesterday after 1st IVF. Like you cautious about getting to excited due to previous plus I have been bleeding. Repeat hcg on Friday to make sure it rising. Lol there's my life story in a nut shell :)

Hi there I have an 18 month old who was the result of our first iui. Our second iui in June 2012 resulted in an ectopic pregnancy so dr said IVF was our only option to give our little man a sibling. Got our bfp yesterday after 1st IVF. Like you cautious about getting to excited due to previous plus I have been bleeding. Repeat hcg on Friday to make sure it rising. Lol there's my life story in a nut shell :)

Thanks afisher it is nice to have others in a similar situation because the August 2013 board is already full of 'gender preference' and 'will you be disappointed' posts and they annoy me. Take care and will let you know how we go on Friday :)

Thanks afisher it is nice to have others in a similar situation because the August 2013 board is already full of 'gender preference' and 'will you be disappointed' posts and they annoy me. Take care and will let you know how we go on Friday :)

I was TTC #1 since March 2011. I am 32. We've had such a heartbreaking almost 2 years wondering if we'd ever be parents. We failed 4 IUIs + Clomid from Nov '11-March '12. Then we took some time off. Finally, we started IVF in Oct and I just got BFP a week ago. I am so cautious, I really don't feel like it's real. I am ready to be out of our first trimester!

I agree- I can't stand some other boards. People talking about gender or complaining about being pregnant or whatever. I am so grateful to be pregnant. It's just a different world post fertility treatments!!

I was TTC #1 since March 2011. I am 32. We've had such a heartbreaking almost 2 years wondering if we'd ever be parents. We failed 4 IUIs + Clomid from Nov '11-March '12. Then we took some time off. Finally, we started IVF in Oct and I just got BFP a week ago. I am so cautious, I really don't feel like it's real. I am ready to be out of our first trimester!

I agree- I can't stand some other boards. People talking about gender or complaining about being pregnant or whatever. I am so grateful to be pregnant. It's just a different world post fertility treatments!!

I agree. I didn't have any trouble getting pregnant the first two times. In fact it was too easy. I never thought this would be me. Then my MC and I realized getting pregnant was only half the battle. It was keeping it that I had to worry about. Then I couldn't even GET pregnant. lol It was terrible and I was a mess. We had finally decided to take a break and this was our last month. I thought I had missed my window. so I was just trying to come to terms with not getting pregnant, and then it happened!

I agree. I didn't have any trouble getting pregnant the first two times. In fact it was too easy. I never thought this would be me. Then my MC and I realized getting pregnant was only half the battle. It was keeping it that I had to worry about. Then I couldn't even GET pregnant. lol It was terrible and I was a mess. We had finally decided to take a break and this was our last month. I thought I had missed my window. so I was just trying to come to terms with not getting pregnant, and then it happened!

I just found out I am pregnant last week. We've been TTC for about 2 years. We've been using fertility treatments for the last 6 months. We did 5 IUIs. The first 2 were with just clomid. The 3rd was with Clomid and Menopur. The 4th and 5th were with just Menopur. After the 4th IUI I had a cyst so we had to take a month off which was disappointing but then the next month it worked! I didn't even know I was pregnant because I started bleeding on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So I went in on Monday to start the next cycle and they did a urine test and it was positive. Then I took a blood test and it was also positive. My DH and I were in shock. I bled for 5 days and had cramps for the first 3 days so I was really nervous that something was wrong. I had another blood test on Wednesday and my HCG went up so that is good. I'm still worried that something could go wrong but I'm trying to stay positive. I'm using endometrin and will continue until 10 weeks. DH and I are so excited. This is our first pregnancy.

I just found out I am pregnant last week. We've been TTC for about 2 years. We've been using fertility treatments for the last 6 months. We did 5 IUIs. The first 2 were with just clomid. The 3rd was with Clomid and Menopur. The 4th and 5th were with just Menopur. After the 4th IUI I had a cyst so we had to take a month off which was disappointing but then the next month it worked! I didn't even know I was pregnant because I started bleeding on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. So I went in on Monday to start the next cycle and they did a urine test and it was positive. Then I took a blood test and it was also positive. My DH and I were in shock. I bled for 5 days and had cramps for the first 3 days so I was really nervous that something was wrong. I had another blood test on Wednesday and my HCG went up so that is good. I'm still worried that something could go wrong but I'm trying to stay positive. I'm using endometrin and will continue until 10 weeks. DH and I are so excited. This is our first pregnancy.

Hi everyone. I hope no one minds me joining you all. I'm pregnant after fertility treatments too but am at a later stage in my pregnancy (just about 30 weeks now) but i still like to talk to other people who've been through treatments too and figured i might be able to offer some answers to questions people have at earlier stages in the game. Plus, i too hate my home board and the amount of very nasty people that are on there just wanting to be mean to each other.

So here's about me... I'm 27 and on my way to becoming a ftm due feb 14th. I was ttc for almost 5 years when i finally got my bfp. I have very severe pcos and do not ovulate or get AF by myself at all. So i went through ovarian drilling and a laparoscopy, a series of useless doctors, many unsuccessful clomid cycles and finally on to IVF. On my fresh IVF cycle i got severe OHSS and got taken to hospital after my egg collection in an ambulance where i almost died from serious fluid retention, fluid pressing on my lungs and internal bleeding from my ovaries. It took a good few months to recover from that and obviously i hadn't been allowed to transfer so all my embryos were frozen. My first attempt at FET was then cancelled because my lining was not responding to the drugs and needless to say i was devastated. We tried again with a second FET (and monster amounts of estrogen) and my lining responded better. We transferred 2 day 3 embryos and here i am now, 10 werks away from becoming a mum to a perfect little boy.

Hi everyone. I hope no one minds me joining you all. I'm pregnant after fertility treatments too but am at a later stage in my pregnancy (just about 30 weeks now) but i still like to talk to other people who've been through treatments too and figured i might be able to offer some answers to questions people have at earlier stages in the game. Plus, i too hate my home board and the amount of very nasty people that are on there just wanting to be mean to each other.

So here's about me... I'm 27 and on my way to becoming a ftm due feb 14th. I was ttc for almost 5 years when i finally got my bfp. I have very severe pcos and do not ovulate or get AF by myself at all. So i went through ovarian drilling and a laparoscopy, a series of useless doctors, many unsuccessful clomid cycles and finally on to IVF. On my fresh IVF cycle i got severe OHSS and got taken to hospital after my egg collection in an ambulance where i almost died from serious fluid retention, fluid pressing on my lungs and internal bleeding from my ovaries. It took a good few months to recover from that and obviously i hadn't been allowed to transfer so all my embryos were frozen. My first attempt at FET was then cancelled because my lining was not responding to the drugs and needless to say i was devastated. We tried again with a second FET (and monster amounts of estrogen) and my lining responded better. We transferred 2 day 3 embryos and here i am now, 10 werks away from becoming a mum to a perfect little boy.

I'm also just a tad further along than some on here so far, but not as far as Abi K. I'm 10 weeks 4 days. Congratulations to everyone! Even with the doubts and concerns this is already such a positive group and most deserving of their bfp's.I have endometriosis and a balanced robertsonian translocation. DH has low motility/morphology. We got our bfp on the first ivf/icsi/pgd after exactly 2 years ttc and have one frozen embryo stashed away for next time. We would have been so ecstatic with one good embryo. Two was superb!

I agree with the frustration regarding posts about "will you be disappointed about gender" and all the complaints about being pregnant. I found out last week what we are having (see my gender reveal post in fertility forum about the bonus of pgd). Dh had me thinking it was one for a few days before revealing the other. He wanted to know what I wanted and if I would be disappointed with one and not other but all I can think is how amazing it is that we get to have one, regardless of gender, I am just so happy and keep thinking the only thing bad about one before the other is that we had a name already for one gender and now I'm being kept busy trying to figure out the other. How can that possibly be seen as bad?

I'm also just a tad further along than some on here so far, but not as far as Abi K. I'm 10 weeks 4 days. Congratulations to everyone! Even with the doubts and concerns this is already such a positive group and most deserving of their bfp's.I have endometriosis and a balanced robertsonian translocation. DH has low motility/morphology. We got our bfp on the first ivf/icsi/pgd after exactly 2 years ttc and have one frozen embryo stashed away for next time. We would have been so ecstatic with one good embryo. Two was superb!

I agree with the frustration regarding posts about "will you be disappointed about gender" and all the complaints about being pregnant. I found out last week what we are having (see my gender reveal post in fertility forum about the bonus of pgd). Dh had me thinking it was one for a few days before revealing the other. He wanted to know what I wanted and if I would be disappointed with one and not other but all I can think is how amazing it is that we get to have one, regardless of gender, I am just so happy and keep thinking the only thing bad about one before the other is that we had a name already for one gender and now I'm being kept busy trying to figure out the other. How can that possibly be seen as bad?

I feel the exact same way- first child, first pregnancy. Trying to stay positive and scared something could go wrong and we'd have to start all over again. Just to think about it is so heartbreaking. I am really hoping for the best!

I feel the exact same way- first child, first pregnancy. Trying to stay positive and scared something could go wrong and we'd have to start all over again. Just to think about it is so heartbreaking. I am really hoping for the best!

I'm 36 and TTC 4 years. DH has pituitary issue causing low counts. After a failed IVF in August, we got our BFP on our second try in November. I'm now 6w1d today. We've had one US showing the gestational sac and go Friday to hopefully see a heartbeat and find out how many we have!!!

I'm 36 and TTC 4 years. DH has pituitary issue causing low counts. After a failed IVF in August, we got our BFP on our second try in November. I'm now 6w1d today. We've had one US showing the gestational sac and go Friday to hopefully see a heartbeat and find out how many we have!!!

We went through four years of trying, two MC's and a chemical pregnancy, 5 IVF cycles and a bunch of IUIs. The problem seemed to be mostly egg quality with some minor sperm quality issues thrown in.

Can't believe I'm almost to the third trimester, seems pretty unreal. Midway through the second trimester it sort of hit me that this pregnancy might actually work, and I might need to actually have some stuff ready!

I guess I've been lucky, both the Multiples and Twins board and the 35+ Moms board are considerably more mature than the monthly due date boards seem to be! (Though of course, not as useful if you're under 35 or pregnant with a singleton!)

Hi all, I'm 25 weeks with identical twin boys.

We went through four years of trying, two MC's and a chemical pregnancy, 5 IVF cycles and a bunch of IUIs. The problem seemed to be mostly egg quality with some minor sperm quality issues thrown in.

Can't believe I'm almost to the third trimester, seems pretty unreal. Midway through the second trimester it sort of hit me that this pregnancy might actually work, and I might need to actually have some stuff ready!

I guess I've been lucky, both the Multiples and Twins board and the 35+ Moms board are considerably more mature than the monthly due date boards seem to be! (Though of course, not as useful if you're under 35 or pregnant with a singleton!)

Hi all... We have been ttc for 2 1/2 years. We had 2 mc---first mc was at 5wks and the 2nd at 9----there was a chromosomal abnormailty--before seeing the RE. We then did 3 rounds of clomid/IUI. We did have a bfp from our 2nd IUI but had an early MC. We took some time off and during that time had 2 more mc. We have no problem getting pregnant just doesn't stick much past 5wks. No luck our 1st IVF found out I had poor quality eggs. I took DHEA Nd CoQ10 for 3 months prior to our 2nd IVF and now we r pregnant 5w5d. My beta numbers look great and I had my 1st u/s today and everything is measuring right on schedule.

I'm trying hard not to get to excited just in case. I wish everyone a healthy and happy 9 months!!

Hi all... We have been ttc for 2 1/2 years. We had 2 mc---first mc was at 5wks and the 2nd at 9----there was a chromosomal abnormailty--before seeing the RE. We then did 3 rounds of clomid/IUI. We did have a bfp from our 2nd IUI but had an early MC. We took some time off and during that time had 2 more mc. We have no problem getting pregnant just doesn't stick much past 5wks. No luck our 1st IVF found out I had poor quality eggs. I took DHEA Nd CoQ10 for 3 months prior to our 2nd IVF and now we r pregnant 5w5d. My beta numbers look great and I had my 1st u/s today and everything is measuring right on schedule.

I'm trying hard not to get to excited just in case. I wish everyone a healthy and happy 9 months!!

Hi! I just finished an ivf cycle and am pleased to announce we got our bfp Saturday. I still don't believe it's real b/c I don't feel pregnant (other than the bloat). I'm excited to tell everyone but we are cautious as we have been through several m/c's. I'm looking to connect with others going through this journey and hopefully making some cycle buddies and new friends :)

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Hi! I just finished an ivf cycle and am pleased to announce we got our bfp Saturday. I still don't believe it's real b/c I don't feel pregnant (other than the bloat). I'm excited to tell everyone but we are cautious as we have been through several m/c's. I'm looking to connect with others going through this journey and hopefully making some cycle buddies and new friends :)

Hello everyone! I am glad this group was formed as I didn't feel like I fit in anymore on the fertility page, but didn't really relate to my month's board either. DH and I have been TTC since June 2011. About 8 months into it DH had an SA and found out he had azospermia. He was diagnosed with a blockage in his ejaculatory duct and had surgery to remove it. This helped, but his sperm count stayed quite low. IVF was pretty much our only option, so we went straight to that. We started our cycle Oct 27 and I got my very first BFP on Nov 20! I am currently 6 weeks exactly with an EDD of July 30. I have my first ultrasound next Tuesday and I am so excited to see the baby and hopefully hear the heartbeat! I feel very scared and nervous at the same time though that after all this that I could possibly lose it. I try to stay positive and just keep plugging along. So far I think all is good. Oh, and I am a FTM and I am 31 and DH is 36.

Hello everyone! I am glad this group was formed as I didn't feel like I fit in anymore on the fertility page, but didn't really relate to my month's board either. DH and I have been TTC since June 2011. About 8 months into it DH had an SA and found out he had azospermia. He was diagnosed with a blockage in his ejaculatory duct and had surgery to remove it. This helped, but his sperm count stayed quite low. IVF was pretty much our only option, so we went straight to that. We started our cycle Oct 27 and I got my very first BFP on Nov 20! I am currently 6 weeks exactly with an EDD of July 30. I have my first ultrasound next Tuesday and I am so excited to see the baby and hopefully hear the heartbeat! I feel very scared and nervous at the same time though that after all this that I could possibly lose it. I try to stay positive and just keep plugging along. So far I think all is good. Oh, and I am a FTM and I am 31 and DH is 36.

Great idea for a board! I kind felt like I didn't belong anywhere either. And I still don't quite fit in but it's the closest I can find. I'm 7 weeks after going through all kinds of treatments/surgeries and four mc's. My most recent loss was in oct at 7 weeks (no baby developed) after doing my last round of injectables/iui before moving on to ivf. I decided to waste no more time and had consulted my re to start ivf. It was all in place and SURPRISE! I got pregnant! Only thing different was they started me on metformin before starting ivf. So who knows if it was a combo of the mc, metformin, progesterone and baby aspirin but everything looks better than any of my prior pregnancies. Hoping this little one sticks!

Great idea for a board! I kind felt like I didn't belong anywhere either. And I still don't quite fit in but it's the closest I can find. I'm 7 weeks after going through all kinds of treatments/surgeries and four mc's. My most recent loss was in oct at 7 weeks (no baby developed) after doing my last round of injectables/iui before moving on to ivf. I decided to waste no more time and had consulted my re to start ivf. It was all in place and SURPRISE! I got pregnant! Only thing different was they started me on metformin before starting ivf. So who knows if it was a combo of the mc, metformin, progesterone and baby aspirin but everything looks better than any of my prior pregnancies. Hoping this little one sticks!

Hi, everyone! I am 32 and 6w1d after our first IVF cycle, which was our first fertility treatment. I have low AMH and had to have a polyp removed. My RE originally recommended injectables with IUI first, but when he realized we were self pay, he recommended IVF as it has higher success rates for the money we will be spending. Compared to most others, I have not been TTC too long---started end of Nov 2011 and got positive beta Nov 19, 2012. This whole process has been so surreal for me. After seeing/hearing the heartbeat today, I am finally able to accept and acknowledge that I am actually pregnant!!!!

Hi, everyone! I am 32 and 6w1d after our first IVF cycle, which was our first fertility treatment. I have low AMH and had to have a polyp removed. My RE originally recommended injectables with IUI first, but when he realized we were self pay, he recommended IVF as it has higher success rates for the money we will be spending. Compared to most others, I have not been TTC too long---started end of Nov 2011 and got positive beta Nov 19, 2012. This whole process has been so surreal for me. After seeing/hearing the heartbeat today, I am finally able to accept and acknowledge that I am actually pregnant!!!!

I am so excited that you are all here!! Don't worry about not being at the same stage as most of us, we could all use your advice and support. Also as we continue thru our journey more will join us, and all will be at a different stage.

I don't feel very pregnant either. I just really want to get past the first 7wks, since that will be further than the last.

I am excited to get to know each of you more! Happy Baby Baking!

I am so excited that you are all here!! Don't worry about not being at the same stage as most of us, we could all use your advice and support. Also as we continue thru our journey more will join us, and all will be at a different stage.

I don't feel very pregnant either. I just really want to get past the first 7wks, since that will be further than the last.

So excited to find this forum. I just turned 31 and have been TTC for 7years. I had two myomectomies in the same year, two years ago, a failed fresh IVF cycle in march this year. We had 3 embryos that we froze from that cycle. DH had no hope in FETs but I finally convinced him and we did it. When the nurse called me to tell me my first beta was 190, I could not believe it. So far everything looks great. We had a scan at 6wks4days and heart the heart beating at 124 bpm! Best sound I've ever heard in my life. I'm so excited as I've never been pregnant before and was beginning to lose hope. I'm now 7wks2days and hoping for the first trimester to be over already. I'm doing great and enjoying this pregnancy so far, no morning sickness, I eat EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. I'm so grateful to God for this miracle, my RE has released me to my regular OB and I have another apt for 8wks or so. Keep y'all posted!

EDD- 07/23 which happens to be DHs birthday. Can't wait!

So excited to find this forum. I just turned 31 and have been TTC for 7years. I had two myomectomies in the same year, two years ago, a failed fresh IVF cycle in march this year. We had 3 embryos that we froze from that cycle. DH had no hope in FETs but I finally convinced him and we did it. When the nurse called me to tell me my first beta was 190, I could not believe it. So far everything looks great. We had a scan at 6wks4days and heart the heart beating at 124 bpm! Best sound I've ever heard in my life. I'm so excited as I've never been pregnant before and was beginning to lose hope. I'm now 7wks2days and hoping for the first trimester to be over already. I'm doing great and enjoying this pregnancy so far, no morning sickness, I eat EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. I'm so grateful to God for this miracle, my RE has released me to my regular OB and I have another apt for 8wks or so. Keep y'all posted!

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